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HiQ International today announces that Sven Ivar Mørch will be the new Chief Executive Officer and President of HiQ. Sven Ivar Mørch will from 1 December replace Lars Stugemo who leaves the position after 25 successful years in the company, the last 20 of them as its CEO and President.

“It’s really exciting to be a part of HiQ and I have since long been deeply impressed by the company’s competence and culture. In short – we are the rock stars of the Nordic consultancy market, and I’m honored having been given the opportunity to take over as CEO and to lead HiQ in the next stage of the company”, says Sven Ivar Mørch.

HiQ is assisting InfoSolutions with their assignment from the Public Health Agency of Sweden (Folkhälsomyndigheten) to increase national accessibility of testing for Covid-19. It involves PCR testing, which diagnoses active coronavirus infection.

“This is the second project we’ve participated in that aims to reduce the impact of Covid-19 on the world. It’s nice to see that our broad knowledge in digitalising the healthcare sector and e-health will help control the pandemic,” says Helena Forsmark, Managing Director of HiQ Stockholm.

The website mdh.se, developed by HiQ for Mälardalen University wins the Guldhanden Award in the category best public website 2020.

“Yeeess! We’re so happy that the results of the great project we did together with Mälardalen University is being recognised this way. This is the result of an excellent collaboration between a brave and visionary client and a very great team from HiQ,” says Anders Nilsson, Managing Director of HiQ Mälardalen. 

The following resolutions were adopted at the Extraordinary General Meeting (“EGM”) in HiQ International AB on
30 October 2020:

Nasdaq Stockholm AB has decided that HiQ International AB (publ) will be delisted from Nasdaq Stockholm. The last day of trading in the share (ticker HIQ, ISIN Code SE0012454619) will be Friday, 13 November 2020. As a consequence of the delisting, the Company will not publish any interim report for the period January-September 2020.

HiQ was the only company which received a full score in the Swedish Tax Agency’s procurement for services within IT Applications. Following a decision by the Administrative Court of Appeal to reject an appeal, HiQ is once again one of the four companies chosen as winners of the procurement.

“It’s a huge thrill for us to know that HiQ is so highly ranked by the Swedish Tax Agency and obtains the trust to continue to help the Ageny to develop systems and services which simplify operations for the tax payers of Sweden”, says Lars Stugemo, CEO and President of HiQ.

Triton Fund V, through Trisall AB (“Trisall”), controls more than 90 percent of the shares in HiQ International AB (publ) (“HiQ”) and has requested compulsory redemption of the remaining shares in the company.

Hamina Energy chose HiQ’s integration platform Frends to bring efficiency to its operations. Frends is a modern hybrid integration platform that can handle integration needs from file transfers to hyperautomation and API management. With the Frends platform, Hamina Energy can better meet business requirements and become more agile, flexible and cost-effective than before.

“I’m really glad to welcome Hamina Energy as client and that we continue to expand even more in the energy sector”, says Lars Stugemo, CEO and President at HiQ.

Trisall AB has informed the Company about the following proposal to be presented at the Extraordinary General Meeting of HiQ International AB to be held on Friday 30 October 2020 at 10.00 a.m. at Roschier Advokatbyrå at Brunkebergstorg 2 in Stockholm:

Åsa Melvanius will be the new Managing Director of HiQ Skåne, where she will continue to build on HiQ’s successful operations in the Öresund region.  

“I’m very happy to welcome Åsa to our team in Skåne. She has an impressive track record and plenty of drive. Together with our fantastic consultants, sales reps, leaders and forward-thinking clients, she will help our business grow stronger in the region,” said Lars Stugemo, President and CEO of HiQ.

Lannebo Fonder, Mawer Investment Management and Swedbank Robur Fonder have accepted Trisall AB’s (”Trisall”) public bid on HiQ International AB (”HiQ”) and are thereby no longer owners in HiQ. As a result of that they have together with the Chairman of the Board Gunnel Duveblad all decided to resign from the Nomination Committee of HiQ. 

As a preventive measure to reduce risk of spreading the corona virus, the Board of Directors of the Company has decided that no food or beverage will be served in connection with the general meeting. Participation of board members, members of the management team as well as the number of non-shareholders present will be limited. For shareholders who are worried of the spread of infection due to the corona virus, we want to emphasize the possibility to participate through mail voting or via proxy as described below. 

By request of Trisall AB, which after the completion of its public cash offer to the shareholders of HiQ International AB (publ) (”HiQ”) owns approximately 89 percent of the total number of shares and votes in HiQ, the shareholders of HiQ are hereby invited to an Extraordinary General Meeting to be held on Friday 30 October 2020 at 10.00 a.m. at Roschier Advokatbyrå at Brunkebergstorg 2 in Stockholm.

HiQ wins framework agreement with the Municipalities of Skurup, Trelleborg and Ystad for innovation and organisational development services. HiQ was chosen as a supplier after a new approach to procurement that involved a week-long live-streamed innovation sprint. 
“We are very happy and proud about the agreement and at least as happy and proud about the journey that took us there. We have a lot of experience in building platforms for tangible innovation and having the opportunity to also do it in the procurement phase is really great,” says Magnus Gudéhn, interim Managing Director of HiQ Skåne.

HiQ is chosen to support St1’s mobile applications in all Nordic countries. St1 offers its customers comprehensive mobile services through mobile applications, incl. mobile payment, mobile refueling, country-specific loyalty benefits and credit card services including ApplePay. 

“St1 is an important partner for us and I’m really proud that we can expand our collaboration further”, says Lars Stugemo, CEO and President of HiQ.